"I began this group of paintings in 2003, and to put them in context, they mark a shift in my work that coincided with a move from the West of Ireland to Guéthary, near Biarritz, where we live in the faded glamour of a grand hotel of ‘La Belle Epoque’. The building is so close to the sea its like a Venetian Palazzo, albeit one engulfed in huge waves from time to time.
My work has often occupied the slippery ground between the painting as an object and the painting as a picture ..... where paint is both stuff and light and where colour behaves strangely. It flickers and undermines the solid mass of the paint, canvas and wood. Where image can become object and object become image.
An interesting thing about the flower motif is that, as with a rectangle or a Madonna, it is common property, ubiquitous on wallpaper and textiles. As such, it has changed much of its previous representative function. By which I mean that the flowers in my paintings no longer represent flowers themselves but often Eden like ideals, such as liberty or joy or paradise; notions that are frequently unattainable.

Nick Gammon, Guéthary, 2006." (catalogue note from "Some Flowers from a Green Room") 

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